DocRock
@docrock54.bsky.social
I’m a geriatrician and palliative medicine specialist and a firm believer in democracy.
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The biggest loser in the Russian war against Ukraine is the United States of America.
When MAGA Comes to Christmas Dinner
A glimpse of what Trump’s movement does to its supporters.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The biggest loser in the Russian war against Ukraine is the United States of America.
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December 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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4. The most common: People who feel that others do not afford them the respect to which they are entitled or that society is rewarding the wrong people for the wrong things
There are 3 types of Trump supporter.
A. The incurably stupid
B. Those with a financial interest.
C. Those who wish to impose their cultural views on everyone.
A. The incurably stupid
B. Those with a financial interest.
C. Those who wish to impose their cultural views on everyone.
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
4. The most common: People who feel that others do not afford them the respect to which they are entitled or that society is rewarding the wrong people for the wrong things
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"No holiday season can be complete without Bach."
A Perfect Christmas Playlist
Ten songs spanning the decades to help you enter into a holiday mindset.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"No holiday season can be complete without Bach."
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Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Freight trains. Box cars. Stuff them full. And then a quick selection when they arrive at the detention facility to identify those capable of good, hard work. For additional profit, also check for gold in their teeth and smuggled currency.
open.substack.com/pub/theunbia... - scary! RFK, Jr. is working behind the scenes to devastate our childhood immunization paradigm.
#vaccineswork
#vaccineswork
The Quiet Commission That Could Break the Vaccine System
A holiday meeting, an obscure commission, and the future of vaccine access
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
open.substack.com/pub/theunbia... - scary! RFK, Jr. is working behind the scenes to devastate our childhood immunization paradigm.
#vaccineswork
#vaccineswork
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The holding is a happy surprise. The dissents are pretty much who I would have expected, if I had to pick 3--i'm just glad Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Roberts came out the right way for once.
Thomas & Alito want a king as long as he's conservative. Gorsuch thinks he's edgy
Thomas & Alito want a king as long as he's conservative. Gorsuch thinks he's edgy
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The holding is a happy surprise. The dissents are pretty much who I would have expected, if I had to pick 3--i'm just glad Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Roberts came out the right way for once.
Thomas & Alito want a king as long as he's conservative. Gorsuch thinks he's edgy
Thomas & Alito want a king as long as he's conservative. Gorsuch thinks he's edgy
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“Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this Trump presidency is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this Trump presidency is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
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Trump Announces New ‘Dodger Dividend’ For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service
Trump Announces New ‘Dodger Dividend’ For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service
WASHINGTON—Praising the recipients for their acts of true American cowardice, President Donald Trump proudly announced a new “Dodger Dividend” on Wednesday night for anyone who successfully avoided mi...
theonion.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Trump Announces New ‘Dodger Dividend’ For Anyone Who Avoided Military Service
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We are all now forced to follow RFK Jr.'s "experts" instead of real experts.
We are all now forced to follow RFK Jr.'s "experts" instead of real experts.
Beyond the Noise #87: RFK Jr. says we need to stop trusting experts
YouTube video by MicrobeTV
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
youtu.be/oA7gutNXu8g?...
We are all now forced to follow RFK Jr.'s "experts" instead of real experts.
We are all now forced to follow RFK Jr.'s "experts" instead of real experts.
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FYI: this is the kind of stuff he's gonna do over the next few days to keep attention off the Epstein files, or the fact that Bondi is gonna withhold them.
NEW: He’s renaming the Kennedy Center. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
FYI: this is the kind of stuff he's gonna do over the next few days to keep attention off the Epstein files, or the fact that Bondi is gonna withhold them.
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Yup
December 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Yup
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Do *you* think this is what a serious country looks like? lnk.thebulwark.com/4936Eye
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People
Stories about revealed preferences and who we really are.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Do *you* think this is what a serious country looks like? lnk.thebulwark.com/4936Eye
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This, for the love of all that is holy
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
There's no rule of journalism that says you have to show a president telling lie after lie – uncorrected – many times a day. That's a decision that corporate media are making for purposes other than delivering the truth to the public.
December 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This, for the love of all that is holy
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
Compliant and credulous media will be the death of the republic
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Why has today’s Senate, individually and collectively, surrendered its free will, backbone, and constitutional duties? The key is Trump. lnk.thebulwark.com/48UgS3H
Worst. Senate. Ever.
Republican senators surrendered to Trump, and now they own this catastrophe.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Why has today’s Senate, individually and collectively, surrendered its free will, backbone, and constitutional duties? The key is Trump. lnk.thebulwark.com/48UgS3H
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Musk is, apparently, unimpressed with Doge's success.
Well, if the objective was to make government more efficient, he is right. But if Doge's objective was to kill hundreds of thousands of adults and children overseas, it was a brilliant success!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Well, if the objective was to make government more efficient, he is right. But if Doge's objective was to kill hundreds of thousands of adults and children overseas, it was a brilliant success!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Musk calls Doge only ‘somewhat successful’ and says he would not do it again
Speaking on a rightwing podcast, the billionaire said he would not go back and lead the job-cutting program again
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Musk is, apparently, unimpressed with Doge's success.
Well, if the objective was to make government more efficient, he is right. But if Doge's objective was to kill hundreds of thousands of adults and children overseas, it was a brilliant success!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Well, if the objective was to make government more efficient, he is right. But if Doge's objective was to kill hundreds of thousands of adults and children overseas, it was a brilliant success!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
As a geriatrician, I know some other words for the weave, like tangentiality and circumlocution.
Trump: "I love the weave, the weave, you know what the weave is? You go here, bing-bing-bing-bing. You always have to get back to the right location.”
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As a geriatrician, I know some other words for the weave, like tangentiality and circumlocution.
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Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Heather Cox Richardson offers the most lucid explanation(s) of the way Trump and his cronies are taking a hammer to our beautiful America. Get her daily letter wherever you get your podcasts.
Don’t they all?
Reader, he is, in fact, making this stuff up
Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."
December 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Don’t they all?
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1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump to Unveil $12 Billion Bailout for Farmers
The financial aid comes as the agriculture sector grapples with the fallout from the president’s tariffs.
www.wsj.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1) Impose massive tariffs on China
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports
3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans
4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase
5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Happy Birthday Professor!! Enjoy your day!
December 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Happy Birthday Professor!! Enjoy your day!
If you follow discussions of hepatitis B immunization of infants on social media, you’ll come to 2 conclusions: 1) none of those who agree with the ACIP’s new changes have read any experts’ comments about why they’re bad; and, 2) it wouldn’t matter if they had. #vaccineswork
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
If you follow discussions of hepatitis B immunization of infants on social media, you’ll come to 2 conclusions: 1) none of those who agree with the ACIP’s new changes have read any experts’ comments about why they’re bad; and, 2) it wouldn’t matter if they had. #vaccineswork
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Tennessee right now in a district that was Trump +22:
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Tennessee right now in a district that was Trump +22:
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"These people are garbage."
—Donald Trump, while being garbage.
“They took billions of dollars.”
—Donald Trump, while taking billions of dollars.
"They accomplish nothing."
—Donald Trump, while accomplishing nothing.
"All they do is complain."
—Donald Trump, while complaining.
#Projection
—Donald Trump, while being garbage.
“They took billions of dollars.”
—Donald Trump, while taking billions of dollars.
"They accomplish nothing."
—Donald Trump, while accomplishing nothing.
"All they do is complain."
—Donald Trump, while complaining.
#Projection
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"These people are garbage."
—Donald Trump, while being garbage.
“They took billions of dollars.”
—Donald Trump, while taking billions of dollars.
"They accomplish nothing."
—Donald Trump, while accomplishing nothing.
"All they do is complain."
—Donald Trump, while complaining.
#Projection
—Donald Trump, while being garbage.
“They took billions of dollars.”
—Donald Trump, while taking billions of dollars.
"They accomplish nothing."
—Donald Trump, while accomplishing nothing.
"All they do is complain."
—Donald Trump, while complaining.
#Projection